Here at Benzinga HQ, users were experiencing similar issues. This has happened before, leader users to feel that perhaps the 'cloud' can't replace everything. Similar temporary outages have occurred at Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Dropbox, and other cloud-based services, making it clear that these things will continue to happen and apologies should not be expected.

Following ongoing concerns of hackers interfering with the 2016 Presidential election, President Barack Obama has called for a complete report into hacking efforts that took place during the election cycle.